Developers in Creative England’s Top 50 Companies List

We’ll just leave this here… 11 games-related developers and businesses have been named in the fourth [our emphasis – SGN] annual Creative England 50 showcasing some of the UK’s [also our emphasis] top companies in the creative …

BFI Videogames Day 2018 Hits Edinburgh

The fourth annual BFI Videogames Day is coming to Edinburgh on June 14 2018.

Special Edition 2017 Launches – Helping Women In Technology Achieve More

Let’s be honest, the digital sector has a problem with diversity. In Scotland only 18% of the workforce are female. Female representation at board level is even worse. While progress is happening, more needs to be …

Girl Geek Scotland Launches Mentoring Project To Encourage More Young Women Into Technology

Girl Geek Scotland needs your help… Diversity is an ongoing issue in the technology sector. According to recent research, women make up only 18% of the digital technology workforce. That’s terrible. One of the mains reasons …

BAFTA Guru Programme – Open For Applications

Applications are now open for the 2017 BAFTA Guru programme. BAFTA Guru puts people with up to a year’s experience in the film, TV or games sectors in front of a range of industry professionals, …

Light Bytes – Coming Soon – To Edinburgh, Dundee & Glasgow

Illustration for LIGHT BYTES an event for Creative Edinburgh and Creative Scotland by Want Some Studio Creative Edinburgh, Creative Dundee and We Throw Switches are joining forces to run three informal mixer events called Light …

Abertay University Team Win Award For Game About Sexual Consent

A team of students from Abertay University has received an award for a video game focusing on the issue of consent in sexual relationships. Sonder Games won the People’s Choice Award for their game After Party, at this year’s Games4Health competition at …

Rockstar Games Being Sued By Former Rockstar North Leader

Alongside ground-breaking, award-winning games, the one thing you can rely upon Rockstar Games for is drama. Once more, the company has delivered… News broke overnight that Rockstar Games and Sam and Dan Houser are facing …

Insomnia Gaming Festival – Scotland – April 2016

Good news for gamers (and game developers), Insomnia is bringing it’s mix of live gaming, eSports, live stage events, indie games and YouTubers to Edinburgh’s International Conference Centre. Running from April 29th – May 2nd, Insomnia …

Scottish Games Industry Survey – PLEASE READ

The Scottish Games Network, Creative Scotland and Scottish Enterprise are working together to produce the first ever entirely comprehensive survey of Scotland’s games industry.